Show the Flow
Sometimes it happens that huge cargo ships lose containers and their cargo re-emerges somewhere else. In principal this is waste polluting the oceans but it get's interesting if we know when and where the cargo got dropped and when and where it re-appeared...
Neglecting Accuracy
Public transport is part of our daily mobility business. But since some decades public transport is mapped in a schematic way. The question is why, because it started with geographically accurate representation...
Get Lost
The Russian government decided to start jamming the signals from the global positioning system in Moscow and side effects are impacting the Russian civilians...
Experts’ Voices: There’s more than 15 Minutes in one Hour
In February 2023 we had the pleasure to talk to Daniel Krajzewicz, researcher at German Aerospace Center (DLR) to take a deep dive into one of his latest research topics: The 15-minute city...
Getting Support for New and Familiar
We had a look into the German research funding on automated driving topics because we had the feeling that something might be odd. We found overlaps and interesting as well as "interesting" projects among them...
To Build the Smartest and the most Interoperable Map in/about the World
Recently two announcements caught our attention: TomTom wants to build the smartest map in the world and the Linux Foundation wants to build interoperable open map data. Let’s look behind the scenes...
Tracking Tracks
We visited the InnoTrans 2022 to get an update about the state of affairs regarding geodata in railway domain...
The Lost Generation of Automated Driving
Since 2016 more and more autonomous bus shuttle projects were set up. What have we learned from so many projects doing the same? And how does this relates to all the current SAE Level 4 automated driving activities? Let’s do a non-exhaustive research...
We are all GEONATIVES
Rendered almost speechless by the atrocities happening in Eastern Europe, it is hard to find the right words. But we strongly believe: On this single planet, we are all GEONATIVES! We stand by the people who are defending their freedom in Ukraine and we strongly support our peers who...
One Format to Rule the World?
More and more use cases need the environment next to the road. Let's see if there is a format that can do both: detailed road description as well as the surroundings...